2020 APA Early Career Poster Session and Social Hour

Risk and Protective Factors for Alcohol Use
Moderated by Mariela Shirley (NIAAA)
  • Martin Gallegos – Multilevel mediation of parents’ monitoring, communication, adolescent individuation and alcohol use
  • Tessa Nalven – Perceived Racial Discrimination, Identity Affiliation, and Heavy Alcohol Use Among Multiracial Individuals
  • Jorge Martins – Exploring Heterogeneity in Risk and Protective Factors of Harmful and Hazardous Drinking
  • Andrew Lac – Weekday Versus Weekend Drinking Differentially Mediate Alcohol Expectancies to Alcohol Problem
  • Caitlin Shepherd – Food and Alcohol Disturbance Among US College Students: A Narrative Review
  • Katie Lindstrom – Social Network Feedback From Peer Drinkers and Alcohol Use Among Community-Dwelling Emerging Adults
Risk and Protective Factors for Drug Use
Moderated by Meyer Glantz (NIDA)
  • Julie Cristello – The impact of Instagram content on perceived harm due to alcohol and marijuana use among adolescents
  • Katie Bartley – Health Risk Perceptions and Secondhand Exposure Behaviors Related to Vaping Among Student Veterans
  • Antoinette Spector – “Well, my kids always come first”: A preliminary examination of the role of children in the lives of women who misuse opioids
  • María José Luna – Persistence and Patterns of Substance Use Disorders: A 15-year Longitudinal Study of Delinquent Youth after Detention
Alcohol and Drug Use Interventions
Moderated by Belinda Sims (NIDA)
  • Stephanie Coronado-Montoya – Intervention Preference Survey for People with Early Psychosis using Cannabis
  • Octaviana Hemmy Asamsama – Trauma, Depression, and Weight Gain: Examining a Population of Veterans Completing a Residential Substance Use Program
  • Normarie Torres-Blasco – Prims from Puerto Ricos journey/adaptation/ experience from the Primary Care Psychology Program (PCPP)
  • Shelbi Fisher – Positive Psychology in Alcoholics Anonymous Literature
Opioid Use
Moderated by Lauren Hoffman (Div 50)
  • Maria Parker – Quit Ratios for Cigarette Smoking among Individuals with Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder
  • Phoebe Long – Examining the relationship between opioid misuse and suicidality level
  • Jacob Daheim – Pain Medication Attitudes Questionnaire and Conformity to Masculine Norms on Men’s Risk of Abusing Opioids in Chronic Pain
  • Jessica Choe – The Role of Heart Rate Variability in Individuals Living with Chronic Pain: The Heart Does Not Lie
Opioid Use Interventions and Policy
Moderated by Kristen Huntley (NIDA)
  • Kathleen Giarratano – Assessing Support for Safe Injection Sites among Constituents in New York
  • Josh Becker – Ethical Considerations of Court-ordered Treatment
  • Tatum Oleskowicz – Geographically expanded 24-week Interim Buprenorphine Treatment: Preliminary findings
Comorbid Stress and Trauma and Substance Use
Moderated by Megan Kirouac (Div. 50)
  • Amanda Banks – Adverse Childhood Experiences and Alcohol Use among Black College Students: Examining the Role of Depression
  • Lourah Kelly – Interactive Effect of Adverse Child Experiences (ACEs) and Suicidality on Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Use Frequency
  • Brittany Zaring-Hinkle – Posttraumatic Stress, Distress Tolerance, Gender, and Alcohol Misuse: A Moderated Mediation Analysis
  • Chaniqua Mazyck – Chronic stress and substance use: The moderating effects of religion among African Americans
Basic Science
Moderated by Justin Strickland (Div. 28)
  • Andrew Craig – Experimental Analyses of Resurgence and Their Implications for Practice
  • Jessica Sharp – The effects of the estrous cycle and ovarian hormones on opioid intake
  • Karl Schmidt – The role of the estrous cycle and gonadal hormones on heroin and sucrose intake
  • Comfort Boatang – Molecular Determinants of Selective D4R Antagonist and Partial Agonist Efficacy
Measurement
Moderated by Susan Collins (Div 50)
  • Rachelle Kromash – Psychometric Properties of the Illness Attitudes Scale in a Substance Use Sample
  • Renee Cloutier – Evaluating DSM-5 diagnostic cut-off scores for self-reported cannabis problem measures
  • Alejandra Fernandez – Screening for family functioning in primary care: Preliminary evidence
  • Silvi Goldstein – Cross-Cultural Validity of the SIP-2R for Indigenous and Black Adults Experiencing Hopelessness with Alcohol Use Disorders